Watching Countdown, I was hit by a bolt of white lightning, when Mo reviewed the massage-a-fraulein, chew-with-your-mouth-open policies of our prez.
YK2 was a complete bust, bridges to the 21st century are being bombed out as we type, the information highway has "minders", and it looks like PNAC has bit the dust.
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However, there is ample evidence that world leaders acting like demented assholes has coin:
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*The aforementioned bush episodes
*Berlusconi humps a traffic cop
*Spanish prez dons a kaffeyih to ease world tensions
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And yet, what little credit is given to Boris Badenoff for setting the trend:
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"During Yeltsin's presidency, several of his awkward behaviors became widely known... Yeltsin attempted to direct an orchestra during his visit to Germany.His state during the incident was characterized by the journalist as "unsober". This episode was captured on tape.In September 1994 (according to General Alexander Korzhakov,Yeltsin ordered his press secretary Vyacheslav Kostikov thrown into Volga river in order to humiliate him. On September 30 , Yeltsin failed to come out from the plane for an official meeting with the Irish Prime Minister The official explanation was that he had overslept.
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_In 1989, Yeltsin went to the USA to give a series of speeches on social and political life in the Soviet Union .That trip was described by a scandalous publication in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.The article reported that Yeltsin often appeared drunk in public. The article was reprinted by Pravda.According to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State,President Bill Clinton was exposed to Yeltsin's alcoholism in their first phone call when Yeltsin called to congratulate him on Inauguration Day in 1993. Yeltsin was drunk. He was drunk again during the first summit meeting they had with Clinton in Vancouver . Talbott recalls that Yeltsin was so drunk when he arrived in the airport in September 1994 that he could barely get off the plane. The same night Yeltsin was staggering around in his underpants shouting for pizza .According to Talbott, that was a huge problem, and they did their best not to add to the public embarrassment. Phone calls to Yeltsin had to be timed to increase the probability to get him sober. During the Kosovo bombing, Yeltsin, who was obviously drunk, suggested that he and Clinton meet on a submarine